39-50 47th Street

Sunnyside | built 1925

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1925
39-50 47th Street is built in 1925 as the southern of two gabled houses near its row's end
Hamilton Court's 1925 row of 14 houses on the west side of 47th Street mixes flat-roofed houses with two-story-plus-attic gabled ones. No. 39-50 and its neighbor 39-48 carry slate-shingled roofs running parallel to the street, matching the pair at 39-28 and 39-30 at the north end. Just beyond 39-50, the end house 39-52 is set farther back and turned to face the through-block path.
“The slate shingled, gable roofs of 39-28, 39-30, 39-48 and 39- 50 47th Street are eaves front.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
The 2007 survey notes a rear dormer and a new second-floor door at 39-50
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The district survey found that 39-50 47th Street had a new door with a storm door and a metal railing on its second floor, its porch bricked in, and vinyl replacement windows. At the back, a wood-shingled dormer sat on the roof, and there were ice guards on the roof. The front yard has a scalloped cast-stone curb and a stone-walled, raised planting bed.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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